Quotes About Fulfillment

I've never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I'd be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

What will you do with the time you have left?

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.